.. _`open an issue`:https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/new?assignees=&labels=Documentation&projects=&template=documentation.yml&title=%5BDoc%5D%3A+

.. _contribute_triage:

Triage

The `issue tracker<https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues>`_ is our

centralized location for feature requests, bug reports,

tracking major projects and discussing priorities. It takes a lot of

time and effort to keep oragnized, so curating our issue tracker is a valuable

contribution. Some examples are:

* improving and verifying bug reports and feature requests

* linking to related issues, discussion, and external work

* labeling issues and pull requests

* helping to solve issues with high quality verified solutions

Helping out with triage is discussed in detail in:ref:`bug_triaging`.

Triage help is a valuable contribution because it takes a lot of time and

judgement to effectively curate and resolve issues; therefore we very much

appreciate thoughtful feedback to issue authors. Please do not verbatim post

the output of a generative AI tool (such as chat GPT) as a response to a bug

report as we expect that the issue author has either already tried that or has a

reason for not doing so.

.. _other_ways_to_contribute:

:octicon:`note;1em;sd-text-info` Write documentation

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:link: contribute_triage

:link-type: ref

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:octicon:`note;1em;sd-text-info` Help triage

..grid-item-card::

:link: other_ways_to_contribute

:link-type: ref